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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giorgos
Keramidas
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:06 PM
To: DAve
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server
This freebsd-questions thread is approaching a low
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible.
Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
Foo JH wrote:
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible.
and requires 400 patches to do basic things =(
heres some interesting reading about qmail...
http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html
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Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail
Postfix rules, Dovecot or cyrus, though dovecot seems more managable
my take running an ISP based mail system
Postfix Definately
Qmail, its ok, in most cases scenerios
Exim - No way
and Dovecot or Cyrus for imaps/imap
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Eric Zimmerman wrote:
Foo JH wrote:
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's
extensible.
and requires 400 patches to do basic things =(
List them, not 100, not 399, all 400 please.
Keep in mind that when your download x.x.x release of a software package
you are
On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:50:56 -0400
N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-29
13:35:27-0400]:
I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers
that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server.
A third vote for Postfix +
As a sysadmin at a medium mailhosting ISP (~15,000 email customers,
averaging about 5 email addresses per customer,) we use a load balanced
cluster of Dovecot and exim servers with mysql backend.
Theres no way we could use qmail, it just doesnt have the flexibility
even with 1/2 a dozen
On May 30, 2008, at 10:39 AM, DAve wrote:
That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail
is still amazes me.
Is it still the case that qmail does not reject mail during SMTP
transaction, but instead will do an accept and then later bounce?
If this is still true,
On Friday 30 May 2008 18:09:48 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
exim: If I were setting up a large complicated installation for say an
ISP or a mail hosting system, exim is what I would use. I've heard
people say that they didn't understand the configuration file, but I
don't see what the problem is.
On 5/30/08, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric Zimmerman wrote:
Foo JH wrote:
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's
extensible.
and requires 400 patches to do basic things =(
List them, not 100, not 399, all 400 please.
Keep in mind that when your download x.x.x
Bob Johnson wrote:
On 5/30/08, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric Zimmerman wrote:
Foo JH wrote:
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's
extensible.
and requires 400 patches to do basic things =(
List them, not 100, not 399, all 400
I'd personally vouch for Qmail myself.
So would I, for my environment.
Having been an administrator now
for mail servers in general for nearly 15 years, with experience with
most notable mailers, Qmail by far lends itself to be the most highly
configurable mailer assuming you know what you
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Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:21 PM
To: Bob Johnson
Cc: DAve; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server
Bob Johnson wrote:
On 5/30/08, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED
Catalin Miclaus wrote:
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Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:21 PM
To: Bob Johnson
Cc: DAve; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server
Bob Johnson wrote:
On 5/30
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:09:25PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
I agree. No one should use Qmail unless they have read and completely
understand every email-related RFC and have at least two years of
experience running a commercial mail server. Amateurs shouldn't even
consider it.
I used
On Fri, 30 May 2008 11:39:03 -0400, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric Zimmerman wrote:
heres some interesting reading about qmail...
http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html
That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail
is still amazes me. It is one
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail
servers. I'm interested in both
On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:35:27 -0400
Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail
servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server.
i like postfix with dovecot. (we do imap for about half-a-dozen users.)
both are simple,
Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail
servers.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Patrick Baldwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
However, it's been
* Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-29 13:35:27-0400]:
I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers that
would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server.
A third vote for Postfix + Dovecot here.
Thomas
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N.J. Thomas
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Etiamsi occiderit me, in
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:50 PM, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-29
13:35:27-0400]:
I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers that
would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server.
A third vote for Postfix + Dovecot
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
Given that, a FreeBSD system
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD
On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:52:21 -0400, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might
Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail
servers.
Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
FreeBSD == good choice. :)
However, it's been some
On May 29, 2008, at 16:55, Sahil Tandon wrote:
Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my
mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm
thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement.
I am
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